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XP COMMAND DESCRIPTION
APPEND ARP ASSOC AT ATTRIB BREAK CACLS CALL CD
CHCP CHDIR CHKDSK CHKNTFS CLS CMD COLOR COMMAND COMP
COMPACT CONTROL CONVERT COPY DATE DEBUG DEL DELTREE DIR 2
DIR ... DISKCOMP DISKCOPY DOSKEY ECHO EDIT EDLIN ERASE EXIT
EXPAND FC FDISK FIND FOR FORMAT FTP GRAFTABL HELP
IPCONFIG LABEL LOADFIX MD MEM MKDIR MODE MORE MOVE
MSCDEX NBTSTAT NET NETSTAT NLSFUNC NSLOOKUP PATH PATHPING PAUSE
PING PRINT PROMPT RD REN RENAME RMDIR ROUTE SET
SETVER SHARE SHUTDOWN SORT SUBST TIME TREE TYPE UNLOCK
VER VERIFY VOL XCOPY





EXPAND  Expand a Microsoft Windows file back to it's original format.
EXPAND [-r]  Source Destination
EXPAND -r Source [Destination]

-r Automatically rename expanded files. Only valid for files compressed with -r switch.
Source Source file specification. Source may be multiple file specifications. Wildcards may be used.
Destination Destination file / path specification. Destination may be a directory. If Source is multiple files and -r is not specified, Destination must be a directory. Wildcards may not be used.

RECENT EXPAND COMMAND SYNTAX

Microsoft (R) File Expansion Utility Version 5.00.2134.1
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1990-1999. All rights reserved.

Expands one or more compressed files.

EXPAND [-r] Source Destination
EXPAND -r Source [Destination]
EXPAND -D Source.cab [-F:Files]
EXPAND Source.cab -F:Files Destination

-r Rename expanded files.
-D Display list of files in source.
Source Source file specification. Wildcards may be used.
-F:Files Name of files to expand from a .CAB.
Destination Destination file | path specification.
Destination may be a directory.
If Source is multiple files and -r is not specified, Destination must be a directory.

REPAIR EXPAND COMMAND SYNTAX

Expands a compressed file.

EXPAND source [/F:filespec] [destination] [/Y]
EXPAND source [/F:filespec] /D

source Specifies the file to be expanded. May not include wildcards.
destination Specifies the directory for the new file. Default is the current directory.
/Y Do not prompt before overwriting an existing file.
/F:filespec If the source contains more than one file, this parameter is required to identify the specific file(s) to be expanded. May include wildcards.
/D Do not expand; only display a directory of the files which are contained in the source.

The destination may be any directory within the system directories of the current Windows installation, the root of any drive, the local installation sources, or the cmdcons directory.

The destination cannot be removable media.

The destination file cannot be read-only. Use the ATTRIB command to remove the read-only attribute.

EXPAND prompts if the destination file already exist unless /Y is used.

EXAMPLES

Expand d:\i386\hal.dl_ c:\windows\system32\hall.dll = Would expand the compressed version of the hall.dll file to the proper directory on the computer.

APPEND ARP ASSOC AT ATTRIB BREAK CACLS CALL CD
CHCP CHDIR CHKDSK CHKNTFS CLS CMD COLOR COMMAND COMP
COMPACT CONTROL CONVERT COPY DATE DEBUG DEL DELTREE DIR 2
DIR ... DISKCOMP DISKCOPY DOSKEY ECHO EDIT EDLIN ERASE EXIT
EXPAND FC FDISK FIND FOR FORMAT FTP GRAFTABL HELP
IPCONFIG LABEL LOADFIX MD MEM MKDIR MODE MORE MOVE
MSCDEX NBTSTAT NET NETSTAT NLSFUNC NSLOOKUP PATH PATHPING PAUSE
PING PRINT PROMPT RD REN RENAME RMDIR ROUTE SET
SETVER SHARE SHUTDOWN SORT SUBST TIME TREE TYPE UNLOCK
VER VERIFY VOL XCOPY





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